Tag: philosophy

However, it is understood that Foucault does not believe the existence of a dual relation of being able (binary structure of being able characterized for a relation between ruling class and dominated), but emphasizes the existence of a constant and quiet fight between being able and resistance, therefore it considers that all the social classrooms are submitted to the relations of being able. In the reality what Foucault wants to demonstrate it is that they are not social structures that determine the relations of being able, but are the microns relations of being able, that they finish constituting social structures. In a generalized manner, the power for Foucault it is not an object, a thing or a property of that some would be possessing in detriment of others, that is, does not exist a dualidade between a social classroom that would be dominant and that, in turn, it would withhold the power, and a dominated social classroom. The power for the author is one practical social one constituted historically. Thus, the power is not something that can be possessed, but yes exerted and all subject it meets in the possibility to exert it. Foucault analyzes the historical formation of the classrooms of the capitalist societies identifies the institutionalized society, also to the constitution of the device of the sexuality, perceiving a synonymy between the State and the power.

But forms of exercise of being able distinct of the State exist, being able until articulating themselves for the same. The mechanics of being able to changed itself into domination techniques. This power reaches the reality of the individuals by means of control of the bodies and adentra in the daily life. Foucault carries through one ' ' an inquiry of the procedures technician of being able that they carry through one detailed, minute control of the body-gestures, attitudes and discursos.' ' (FOUCAULT, 1979, P.

If you want to learn about different philosophies, Jason Waller’s page might be a good place to start. Waller is interested in Early Modern Philosophy (esp., Seventeenth Century Rationalism) and Metaphysics (esp., Persistence, Time, Space, Special Relativity, and Material Constitution.) He also has an interest in the study of how bodies persist through time in Spinoza’s metaphysics.

Some of the papers Waller wrote include: Spinoza’s Attributes and the ‘Intermediate’ Distinctions of Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus; Numerical Sameness Without Identity of Property Tokens; Defending a Pure Biological Interpretation of a ‘Form of Life’ as used in the Philosophical Investigations and more.

Jason Waller was a PhD student of Purdue University, Department of Philosophy.